
Alésia
(Coast of gold):
The siege of the Gallic fortress by César,
the Gallo-Roman city, the worship of the holy king
Alésia entered the legend to have been the
theatre of a battle between César and Vercingétorix
two thousand years ago. But Alésia it is
also, before the siege of 52 front. J.-C.
An oppidum-refuge (a fortress) of the small people
of Mandubiens, then a small Gallo-Roman city whose
partly excavated ruins can be scoured by the visitor